Kind of a free-for-all final class today, in which the opinion was proffered that the Beatles weren't very good technically and that we love them only because it's heretical to say otherwise. More so, it was said that Ringo wasn't a good drummer. Which made me think of Wolter's great line years ago about how if you hadn't drummed for the Beatles, just shut the fuck up. I thought about throwing that out as a counter, but figured it was over the line and just arched my eyebrow.
While I subscribed to these opinions into my mid-20s, I find them repellently boring now.
Re: The Beatles song you're thinking about right now thread
Kind of a free-for-all final class today, in which the opinion was proffered that the Beatles weren't very good technically and that we love them only because it's heretical to say otherwise. More so, it was said that Ringo wasn't a good drummer. Which made me think of Wolter's great line years ago about how if you hadn't drummed for the Beatles, just shut the fuck up. I thought about throwing that out as a counter, but figured it was over the line and just arched my eyebrow.
While I subscribed to these opinions into my mid-20s, I find them repellently boring now.
That's one thing I enjoy about the more passionate students—I recognize that same arrogance and surety of opinion that I possessed at the same age.
Re: The Beatles song you're thinking about right now thread
Kind of a free-for-all final class today, in which the opinion was proffered that the Beatles weren't very good technically and that we love them only because it's heretical to say otherwise. More so, it was said that Ringo wasn't a good drummer. Which made me think of Wolter's great line years ago about how if you hadn't drummed for the Beatles, just shut the fuck up. I thought about throwing that out as a counter, but figured it was over the line and just arched my eyebrow.
While I subscribed to these opinions into my mid-20s, I find them repellently boring now.
That's one thing I enjoy about the more passionate students—I recognize that same arrogance and surety of opinion that I possessed at the same age.
God willing, they won't ever turn into you.
Re: The Beatles song you're thinking about right now thread
Kind of a free-for-all final class today, in which the opinion was proffered that the Beatles weren't very good technically and that we love them only because it's heretical to say otherwise. More so, it was said that Ringo wasn't a good drummer. Which made me think of Wolter's great line years ago about how if you hadn't drummed for the Beatles, just shut the fuck up. I thought about throwing that out as a counter, but figured it was over the line and just arched my eyebrow.
While I subscribed to these opinions into my mid-20s, I find them repellently boring now.
That's one thing I enjoy about the more passionate students—I recognize that same arrogance and surety of opinion that I possessed at the same age.
God willing, they won't ever turn into you.
God doesn't just curse any blood line, you know.
Re: The Beatles song you're thinking about right now thread
Kind of a free-for-all final class today, in which the opinion was proffered that the Beatles weren't very good technically and that we love them only because it's heretical to say otherwise. More so, it was said that Ringo wasn't a good drummer. Which made me think of Wolter's great line years ago about how if you hadn't drummed for the Beatles, just shut the fuck up. I thought about throwing that out as a counter, but figured it was over the line and just arched my eyebrow.
While I subscribed to these opinions into my mid-20s, I find them repellently boring now.
That's one thing I enjoy about the more passionate students—I recognize that same arrogance and surety of opinion that I possessed at the same age.
God willing, they won't ever turn into you.
God doesn't just curse any blood line, you know.
#BlessedCursed
Re: The Beatles song you're thinking about right now thread
Posted: 14 Dec 2017, 4:40pm
by Inder
This is hilarious — Paul forgets how I'm Down starts, then screws up the rest of the song too!
Re: The Beatles song you're thinking about right now thread
The line inspired by Peter Fonda, "I know what it's like to be dead," is striking as hell on its own, but coming from a band known for cheeriness and optimism and all that, it's quite jarring. Not that it was intended to be predictive, but it ends up being an omen to how the Summer of Love and psychedelia is going to play out.
Re: The Beatles song you're thinking about right now thread
The line inspired by Peter Fonda, "I know what it's like to be dead," is striking as hell on its own, but coming from a band known for cheeriness and optimism and all that, it's quite jarring. Not that it was intended to be predictive, but it ends up being an omen to how the Summer of Love and psychedelia is going to play out.
I love it a great track. Lyrically it's genius especially as it was as you say against the grain of their pop sunshine lyrics of the time.
Re: The Beatles song you're thinking about right now thread
Posted: 02 Feb 2018, 2:37pm
by Flex
Man, I know the LP has reached saturation and their are critiques of whether it's the best or patriarchal or blah blah blah, but fuck if Sgt. Pepper ever pops up the radio and I don't instinctively crank up the volume knob when those first riffs start playing. What a song.
Re: The Beatles song you're thinking about right now thread
Man, I know the LP has reached saturation and their are critiques of whether it's the best or patriarchal or blah blah blah, but fuck if Sgt. Pepper ever pops up the radio and I don't instinctively crank up the volume knob when those first riffs start playing. What a song.